The Attica Advocate from Attica, Kansas • 4

SECTORS PI AY CARDS, THE utmprr.if.tr i km oi: n.i.w- mt BOSTON AUTHORS. TUG FAMOUS l.tTEUATEl RS LIVING at thi; nun. OFFICIALS WHO DICTATE. Tilt: GMJLPMorMMtK j.v lUBLl 4MB inula; tM it IS.YU ray. A Good Plain Barn.

barn represented below is adapted to a good-sized farm. It is copied after one built by T. S. Gold, of Connecticut The size is 50 by 00 feet, with 18 feet posts, and a basement with manure shed 14 by 3C feet. Its length is east and west, basement opening to the south.

The magnificent parlors and spacious drawing-rooms, equipped with a royal sumptuous-ness There are some forty rooms in this tremendous residence, and several of them are fifty fcet long each. There is nothing tawdry or meretricious about the equipments; everything is expensive, solid, and imposing in its style. Above the dining-room is a ceding of rolled silver, burnt and finished so as to jnv it the peculiar appearance of enamel; and General ariiwworth- it Lincoln' Death lteil Hi Ki ciillpctinin of "I'lsi Iran Ki-H Ir. Hmiiin 1'h Card I'nrty Hl Mansion ami litrecr. ISptuUd WaKliirnifwi basement walls are 2 feet thick, and laid Clerk is writing out previous dictations on another machine, aid thus one cl.

rk, giving his entire time to transcribing, can accomplish veiy much more than if part of his time were used in receiving dictations. has been said," suggested that you can not make corrections on a talking machine; tbat having once made a statement, it must stand. How about that? "Why," said Mr. Easton, "that point is frequently raised, but never by a person who has looked into the matter. It is perfectly manifest that a machine that will receive an incorrect, erroneous, or undesirable sentence will also receive a statement of iti correction.

In other words, you just simply say to the machine what you would say to the operator; say, 'Hold on. there, that's wrong; strike that out and put it this Tne problem is precisely the same as if you were dictating to your clerk face to face; and to make a correction it is only necessary to state what the correction is." Already there are more than seventy instruments in use in the government departments: while the private subscription listis, of course, many times that numlier. Towxsexd. atli of Pig. 1 1 r.itiuT oi MP I root- when to cn- I I'll" lir I oyer the great library is a roof of Egyptian i finish elaborate frescoes in corper, telling mysterious stories.

General Hammond is now at the climax of his carter. Famous as a physician aud as an author, rich, learned, widely celebrated, he lias settled to the remaining years in the city of his choice, where he won distinction a- surjreon general of (he armies during the war. His portion is an enviable one, I believe he lias published six of the "two dozen novels that he set himself as a task; but, from some words he let drop, I infer that he has tired of that special recreation and tbat "Lai" ami her voluble and vivac- I AiJricli anil Hom-lls A Glimpse at tlieir Homes and Workshops Aldneh's Itusy Life a- Editor of the Atlantic Monthly How Howell Does His Work. Special Boston Letter.l One half inclines to associate the mention of the New England metropolis with all that is most linniky," and many credulous with all that is best in American literature. Here was the birthplace, the cradle, and the home of New World authors, of the pmst and present though New Yotk, Washington, Chicago, and other cities may strive for the envied position of the litemrv centre of the Country, the city of culture and baked beans still holds ttie palm, and is likely to for many years to come.

Boston docs not. like New York, pride herself on the number of authors within her gates; she is a stickler for quality rather than quantity she likes to be known as the home of the new school of American authors the realistic. New York, on the other hand, can supply anything in the shape of literature from the half dime novel to the most pretentious of volumes. Washington has as yet gained no considerable pli.ee in the race, yet her future is full of possibilities. Chicago is always in the arena.

1 had 24 hours of leisure the other day and I gave it to seeing or trying to see two of our most distinguished authors. Few men tcs in I.1 an t. In iulit ryti), a 1 11 well" niaii, it le sliy in hij iittniio-, ite ol facile in srcvh. trp-stieky" tfl iiiIh" -a deri-iv neenmtkm. But mam low Edison's Machine is Superseding Stenographers Department Officers, Conifresnten, Scientists, and Dusinesi Men I'se It.

The progress the talking machines are making, both for business use and entertain ment, is not surprising when we consider th marvellous character of the invention anc the fact that all men, women, and children that can speak and hear must be interested In Washineton the enterprise is furthel along than any other part of the country, as it started here. Now it is difficult to find well-informed man who has not seen thi machines; while very many are placing them in their offices and in their homes, and enjoying the benefits which the use so plainly gives. Of course the government is notslow to appreciate the situation, and now the government offices which have not introduced the phonograph orgraphophoneare dccidedlj in the minority. The principal office of the Columbii Phonograph Company, which rents the instruments, is in the center of the city, on street, only two doors from the general post-office. The display parlors of the Washington agency, which, of themselves, attract a great deal of attention because of theii elaborate decorations, are daily filled with wondering people, who gather to hear thi machines.

The musical feature is assuming large proportions, and when new music ia received from the Edison laboratory persons having phonographs at once proceed to st, his actress He wan euoss, ami own as tin Southern i of hi eurl ions cronies in cover will alk down to Valhalla alone. A. CRorrtrr. ABOUT 11 1 A -V. below the frost.

Stoue pillars, beside these walls, support the barn. The siding is of matched ceiling, aud given twe soats of paint roof matched spruce and slated. The frame is heavily timbered, the roof having two sets of perline plates, the upper ones supported bv posts standing on each side of the barn floor. v. ir hint Ix-stowim rtalii by mobbing ssiiia an out-door hundred The Agricultural Chairman.

The new chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the house, succeeding William H. Hatch, -of Missouri, is E. H. Fun-ton, of Kansas. Mr.

Funston is a farmer who has got was in they learned to with honor; thi lums of Mobil, on him renin him when he meeting there Shots were tire were killeil of his life Ju irraseible, and He hae kWM twenty-nine yt Ihere ara t-tble, ions. usly 1X60 copyright- of letters have been so misjudged from their portraits as has Mr. Thomas Bailey Aid- rusoa three grain scaff ol over the floor. The storage capacity foi hay and grain is ovei 80 tons, at rich. It must be confessed tbat not a little true into Congress there had When Kelly of this erroneous popular belief is strength into public life.

vt as brought up in Ohio, and went tc Kansas after the war, where he bought all the land lie could, and has devoted himself to agriculture cvei since. He stopped raising grain ten rears aco and has TALK IS CHEAP, nUltfMMHMBi f' Li- fSH7 I8XK tuns but will will prove only take invaluable a minute in which to state a few facts, that, if heeded, to many. It's well-known that the press teems with been another mechanic an N.P. Banks, the bobbin I setts. He had been chos 1863 anl elected speaker, the am ient ill be came to lrengthcnel the i arty.

It is a aaveitisemeuts ol sarsapanllas and other liver, blood and lung remedies, for ened if ore looks at the photograph above printed. But if the picture gives one such an impression, it requires only the most casual meeting with the man himself to instantly remove it. It is true that Mr. Aldrich dresses well, but be is not inclined to foppishness by any means. On the contrary, his dress is that of the gentleman, quiet, unobtrusive and scrupulously neat.

No man is more ad- 500 cubic feet per ton. The stables will hold 23 head of cattle, besides the open part of basement, 18 by 48 feet. x. H. FUXSTOK.

.1 t. curious fact that the bobbin-boy." is again in the House and one 9 KeUy'a chief mourners, a white wiiieu jncai, dunu nisuc iney are generally represented as sure cures. But there is one medicine, and only one, the claims for which as a cure for all lingering diseases arising from Torpid Liver or Biliousness, or from impure blood, are backed up by a positive guarantee If it don't do just as represented in every case, the money paid for it is proVnptly refunded. This peculiar method of business, it will readily be seen, would bankrupt the manufacturers of the ordinary medicines iu the market. Only a marvelously efficacious medicine, containing the most positive curative properties, could sustain itself under such trying conditions as these.

This peculiar medicine sells beyond all others throughout the civilized world." And why should it not Talk is cheap." but when it's backed us Ih. i 1 stock farming, in which he lias made money. Mr. Funston is a shrewd, earnest man, as Iih looks indicate. He stands six feet high in his stockings, and weighs 25C pounds, n'e conies "fo Congress from 1.

la, in Eastern Kansas, one of the richest agricultural sections of that State. man, father oi "Jiff ST8lfS I i Lv ti i it puMiiiu guarantee, uy a iiousc oi long nmaMO reputation, for hon 'Mtii 0 guarantee, dv a house or long established reputation, for esty, luiej: hou-tegrity and sound financial standing, then words mean business I And what the World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y.f to do all thirty seven ye General Banks has -the look of virile cmr age that characterise. thats jus 1st mean guaranteeing uretr vr. Fierce uoHKn Metltcal Discovery .1 1 i.

aj a 1 rtiaranteeinrr their Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Speaker Bank, but his jrnr.r. kki.i.v. form is nearly as straight and tall as then an, I l.w Cue carries the -anie command. A dry.

airy loft is one of the very best places in wrfich to store onions. They hhould be spread out. Every straw stack that is net properly capped and well made is liable to injury before the winter is over. No farm is complete without a good house to store the implements in, and no farmer understands his business that does not store his implements when not in use. Examination at the Delaware experiment station of moder itcly pure clover seed, with but a trifle more than 1 per cent of impurity by weight, showed that it contained the seedi of plantaiD, ragweed, smart weed, and foxtail grass in sufficient quantity to put one seed every foot in drills fifteen inches apart if the clover seed were eight pounds to the acre.

Be sure to take from the udder every drop of mil'; tin gives. Nature responds to If you do not demand the milk she will shrink the mess accordingly. She will not work for tliing. Call on her for every drop and she will keep up the flow. She is generous to our needs when rationally manifested, but quick to take advantage of our neglect.

Milk clean. The amount of salt necessary to be used in butter is generally accepted as one ounce of salt to one pound of butter; but in suiting butter the state of the weather is to be considered as well as the preference of the market. In winter less salt is required, and in some markets butter that is very salt is not sold as readily as when less salt is us? 1. A temperatutv of from 64 to 6G is necessary iu churning, and as the weather becomes cold the churn and cream must be warmed. The temperature can Ire easily regulated by the aid of cold and warm water to reduce or raise as it is required.

The churn itself may be very cold, and some dairmea pour warm water into it and then remo it before putting the cream in. A recent writer, who keeps about fifty hens, claims that he had poor success the past winter in getting eggs, but is convinced that the fault was his not giving the bens proper "care. He has kept an exact account for two years past and until this last winter he had cleared a net profit of 1.50 per hen each luai it is reeoimiienueu 10 no, or rciunti tne price paid tor it. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical ITiscovery checks the frightful inroads of Scrofula, and, if taken in time, arrests tiie march of Consumption of the Lungs, which is Lung-scrofula, purifies and enriches the blood, thereby curing all Ckm and Scalp Diseases, Ulcers, Sores, Swellings, and kindred ailments.

It is powerfully tonic as well as alterative, or blood-cleansing, in its effects, hence it strengthens the system and restores vitality, thereby dispelling all those "tired feelings" experienced by the debilitated." Especially has it manifested its potency in curing Tetter. Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands. up with records of brass bands, cornets, pic Such a barn, built of the best material, can be erected for about $2,000. Modifications would reduce this price somewhat. The diagrams show plainly the general features.

is given as the result ol careful planning, by a practical, intelligent farmer, who built to meet his actual needs. Shearing Geese. A curious caso came before an English Healthy Cellars. Cellar windows should lie constructed so as to admit of being tight and close in yery cold weather, and the same may be said of cellar doors. During the winter, however, there a few warm days when the windows may lie opened, which admits air.

If a cellar is kept closed there is liability of dampness, and if open the frost will enter. If a fire is made in a stove in the cellar during severe cold weather the draught will freshen the air of the cellar, and also carry off the moisture. If disease is to le avoided, and the cellar used for storage purposes, some attention must lie given its condition. Ifon. Ignatius Donnelly, Farmer.

Few people realize that one of the best known literary men in this country and also one of the ablest orators of the age is at the same time I hard-working farmer. Ignatius Donnelly has a worldwide fame as a scholar, orator, congressman, debater IN THE "EAD CATARRH no matter of how lonjr standing, is pcw mancntly cured by DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY. EO cents, by druggists. ing jaw and the same lines of rower.

He walks like a ghost tip and down the aisles of the Iloiic, among mem tiers many of whom were not horn when he toook his seat in 1853. I really find it lonjsotne here lie sighed with a quaint, smile, a- I asked him how many familiar faces he could see. 1" very body now is looking for Senator Brice. Democrats feel that he won his place by good hard work and personal generosity and the tact that he hits made a g.d deal of money In the hard tussle of life ought not to enunt against him. It is generally felt that Brice "has sand in him." He has a good deal of facial awkwardness, a massive chin, flashing gray eves and a nose on whose side elevation the fatuous of Julius and Joseph Pulitzer wmiM -hadow.

The light orer the ml. of the House will set in witli tl.i- week. Saker Reed has been in frequent consultation with the Republican members of the committee on rules, and they are about ready to report. Reed, on his daily arrival at the house, with his umbrella in hand, his stalwart form arrayed in its queer roundabout coat, and verse to newspaper talk about himself or his work than Mr. AM rich, but to meet him is to meet one of the most entertaining and social of men.

His disposition is kind and hia manners are the same to all pleasant and DR. TANNER, 250 N. Main Wichita, Kan. Specialties: Eye, Ear, Xoso, Throat, Blood and Xcrvcs. agreeable.

His only enemies are made, as he himself says, through the editorial pen when it is used iu the declination of manuscripts sent him. Nine o'clock every morning finds Mr. Aldrich at his editoral desk in the office of the Atlantic Monthly. He is a hard and Steady worker, and it will probably be a surprise to many to know that his position as editor is not the easy birth commonly imagined. He reads every line that appears in the Atlantic and leaves very little of the proof reading to his assistant.

His correspondence also receives his petsonal attention and besides this work every manuscript sent in is read and passed upon by bini. and author. At home he is known as a wel 1-to-do farmer. While he gives hia nights and winters to Ss ak esperian reasearch, the long toilful days V-JL court for adjudication recently. A poulterer was charged with cruelty to forty-eight live geese by plucking them oi their feathers, and the owner of the geese was charged with procuring the commission of the offence.

The proceedings were taken by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A witness swore that after the geese were plucked their skins turned a purple coloi and thejr seemed to be in pain. They walked about with tlieir backs up and shrank when, touched. The practice was shown by defendants to be very prevalent, and the society asked for a nominal fine, to put a stop to it. The defendants said it was the custom of the district to pluck the feathers every six weeks, and if they were stopped from doing so many people would discontinue keeping geese, as much more money was realized by the sale of the feathers than by the geese.

Tiie court imposed a fine of eighteen shillings each upon the defendants, and expressed the hope that it would be a warning to othpr people. Plucking live geese and ducks prevails all over the United States. It is a barbarous proceeding, and the birds are justified in "getting their backs up" at the cruel practice. Should such cases be prosecute 1 doubtless the courts of this country YOUNG MEN IVI10 may be suffering from the effects of youthful indiscretions, would do well to avail themselves of this, the greatest boon ever laid at jM altar of suffering humanity. Dr.

Tanner will guarantee to forfeit for any case of vital disease of any kind or character which he undertakes and fails to cure. MIDDLE AGED MEN There arc many of the ages of thirty to sixty who are trou'ilcl with too frequent evacuations of the often accompanied by a slight smarting or burning inaiaflwi and weakening system in a manner the patient eannot account for. On examining the uri.iary deposits a ropy sedt-111, will be found, and sometimes small particles of albumen will appear, or the color be of athinormilkish hue, again changing to a dark and torpid appearance. There are many who dio of this difficulty, ignorant of the cause. Dr.

Tanner will guarantee a perfect cure iu all such cases and a healthy restoration of the geuito-unuary oreiinfl. of the northern year. He packed his eggs in salt, however, and kept them until the market price reached a high point. The reason a cow giving bloody milk is some injury to the udder, gener colos, flutes, pianos, banjos, violins, organs i in fact, almos' ever- imaginable variety of music. People are going daft over this feature of the machine, and after a man has bought his first musical record he is an easy prey to the company and will never s'op purchasing until his money gives out or the supply of music is exhausted.

Nothing is more popular than phonograph exhibitions at the homes of cultured and prosperous people. The entertainment never flags, as the records are as various as speech, song, and instrumental music. Another point in connection with the business use of the phonograph and graphophone is tbat it enables men to enlis: as amanuenses members of their own families who do not write shorthand nor have any previously acquired clerical skill. A person to transcribe from the dictation of the-machine needs no preparation beyond wflat can be had in a few moments. Of course experts can accomplish more in a given time than non-experts, but expertness is not a requisite.

I called yesterday upon Mr. E. 1). Easton, the president of the Columbia Phonograph Company, and asked him to tell me something about the uses to which the machines were put. Well," said he, I will give you a few instances.

Hon. AV. C. P. Breck-inbridge, member of Congress from Kentucky, dictates all his letters and matter for the press to a graphophone, and the dictations are transcribed by his wife, an expert manipulator of the typewriter, and therefore he is rendered entirely independent of outside clerical help.

Hon. Curtis J. Hillyer, of Massachusetts avenue, has five graphophones in his family; one for himself, one for his father, who lives in Topeka. one for a son in New York, another for a son in Newport News, and the fifth for bis country place. All the family correspondence is conducted by voice, simply by talking on the cylinder, and Mr.

Hillyer says he will never correspond in the old way so long as graphophones can be had. At the Bull Run panorama a phonograph is used to deliver thelec-ture descriptive of the scenes there portrayed, it having been introduced because the man who previously performed that duty struck for higher wages. A well-known newspaper correspondent in this city dictates bis press dispatches and has them placed in type directly from the spoken words of the machine, the compositor havinga printer's case before him on the graphophone table. 'Professor W. T.

Homady, curator of Hying animals in the National Museum, has a graphophone at home and every evening dictates matter for a new bo which otherwise, he says, he would never find to prepare, and during the following day his wife writes summer find him Hos. 10s wtus oosnelt.t. busy on his farm at Mininger, by the lianks of the Mississippi. He makes a speciality of no particular line of farm produce, but simply "goes in on his general, and raises any and all things that will sell. He has not made much money on the farm, but he has clipped off regular and large cupons of health, comfort, pride and contentment.

There are farm products that pay always every where. Mr. Donnelly can make an admirable after-dinner speech on any topic in the range of human intelligence. He would make an excellent lecturer on the theory and practice of farming. J.

a. t. DR. SHULTS The anlhor resides on Mount Vernon street in a house of positive luxury and comfort. Everything alwill the house is tasteful and of of the richest description.

Tle walls arc adorned with portraits and engravings of authors and poets under each is a bit of rhyme or prose in autograph. Mr Aldrich shares the pardonable hobby of many in securing the pen tracks of great authors and between this and his hirge library he spends a great deal of time. His study, or "den," as he calls it, is the front room of the second storj-, and from this chamber in the house emanate those exceedingly clever stories that have won for their author so laigc a circle of readers and admirers. Saking of Mr. Aldrich' study reminds me of a peep I had into the working-room of Mr.

Howells in his house on Beacon street. From the window of Mr, Howells's study, which is als on thesi cond floor of the house, one can see the home of Qr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The apartment where the novelist does his work is a large one and precisely such as one would imagine to belong to an author. A large table stands in the center of the room, and here Mr.

Howells works, surrounded on every side with books and portraits of celebrated people which look down upon him from the walls. The novelist is very neat and his table rarely presents an untidy appearance. His manuscript is carefully laid away between leather covers in a right band drawer u- soon c.s i- is fin- ally from bruising or being chased by boys or dogs. The udder, then full of milk, is bruised by the legs or coming in contact with brush or briars, by being bitten by dogs, parties throwing stones and injuring tiie udder in fact is the result of an injury of some 1 iad. It generally yields readily to treatment.

Keep the animal quiet in a stable or smalFpas-ture for a few days and bathe the udder well twice a day with hot water. Take good rare of the young pigs immediately after weaning, is the advice of the Orange County Fanner, eepitate them from the sow, and see that they have sweet milk for a few days. Do not fill the trough in the morning for the vvhole.day's feed. Give only what will be eaten up clean, and if any is left clean it out before, giving a fresh supply. Feed four or five times a day for a fortnight or so.

It should be remembered that his big head encased in a derby ha', is Immediately surrounded by the Lading Republican member', rendv with ihhuN fox his guidance in the big job they feel tha' he has on hand to report a code of rules that will meet the many delicate exigencies of the existing congressional situation. The aki claims tbat bis rules will be so simple.straight-fbrward and fair that there ill be no trouble about them. That remains to be seen, would decide as did the court question. There is a species of large water fowl whose habitat in winter is the open lakes of the interior, and tlieir feathers are sc firmly set that they cannot be plucked Shearing is resorted to, and many housewives have beds made of these which almost equal those of eiderdown, as the stiff trouble-ome -quill ends are alsent. Shearing geese and ducks could be made to supersede plucking.

The statement that been made that men living who were be-d of Abraham Lincoln, is icre are John Hay, (Jcn- men li IwdofAhr There are Feeding Hacks. When the ground is frozen, sheep wil eat hay better from the ground that from any other lodge. When it is sofl or foul with manure, they will scarcely touch hay placed upon the earth. there are only tour side the death not quite true. eral Farns worth, Secretary Corporal Tanner, all now these are to he added li liyingin Washington, Rol ister to England, and Gov famous ritisen of Illinois.

McCuII hIi, and Biding here; but neral Meigs, also rt Lincoln, min-rnor Oglesby, a STATE MEDICAL SURGICAUfflTARM. Special attention given to Surgical Deformities and Chronic Diseases. Electricity ued in every form. Massage hy trained manipulators. Turkish, Russian and Roman Baths given.

Free. For further information or circulars, addnes, Dr. PETIT, Medical Director, 250 X. Main Wichita, KanEas. wheat -middlings mixed with milk make a most excellent feed for pigs.

One of the best and mist useful foods for general purpo.es the farmer to have on hand is linseed meal. For rearing calves it is not excelled when mixed with skimmed milk, and it comes into frequent play as a constituent of the food of almost all of our domestic animals. It contains about 20 per cent, cf out what he has dictated. Professor G. Brown Goode, the director of the national museum, has a graphophone at his house, another at his private office, and a third for his clerk, and therefore is always able to dictate whenever he feels like it.

Professor J. Has treated successfully for the part four yesrs in Wichita, Cor sumption. Catarrh, Bronchitis Asthma, Diseases of Heart, I.iver and Bowels, Diseases of Women, Blood.Skin and Private Diseases, Fistulas, Piles, Fits and Ruptures. Lost Manhood permanently cured. Ho is prepared with all the modern improvements in instruments, batteries, and is the only physician in the city who has taken a special course in a school of electricity; he has more money invested in electrical instruments and batteries alone than any other doctor ia Wichita has invested in a whole office oulfit.

He is the only physician in Wichita who cm-ploys a high power microscope for diagnostic purposes and the only Lnne Specialist in the city who employs one at all. His four years' successful practice in Wichita, coupled with his experience in the hospitals of New York and Chicago, give him a decided advantage over his imitators. He is frank, honest and truthful, and will tell you if your case is a curable on and to show faith in his ability, he agrees to the plan of ko pav till cured in all curable cases in any of his specialties, while many others advertise "No cure no pay," lut restrict themselves to two or three diseases, and the two or three of a clasa they know they will nevcrhave, and they alwayf want a fee for a month or two's treatment in advance. The Doctor's acquirements as a surgeon are vouched for by the fact of his being elected chief turgcon by the Medical Society of Wichita and confirmed by the Honorable Board of Directors of the City Hospital. Dr.

Shults treats many patients at a distance in a satisfactory manner. Any one writing (enclosing 2c stamp) will receive in reply blank questions that can be filled out by any one, and such patients can be sent medicines that will effect a cure. His assistants are men of sterling worth; first among them is Dr. John Bruce, of Cincinnati, who is a permanent fixture with Dr. Shults.

Consultation and examination free. Patients for surgical operations of any kind will a-Mrtss in care City Hospital. Dr. J. W.

RHULTS, No 1 North Main Slroet General Karnsworth isa strong chess player, Make a Note of It. Feed puts the most flesh on young bores. Keep pieces of chalk where young animals can lick them. The shelter that shuts out both pnre and cold air is not a profitable structure. Every animal must speak for itself, and only its "pedigree can speak for its offspring.

The coming farmer will trust less to his eye and more to foot-rules and pound-weights. The value of iiedigree is not in its vouching for ancestry, but in its vouching for offspring. Rust and rot do more for the implement maker in winter than wear and tear do in summer. The secrets of large yields always and everywhere are rich soil, good seed, and thorough tillage. The farmer who makes his own pork and beef puts another bond on health and pays himself for so doing.

In making men out of boys, and w.mienout of girls, consider that the character of the material has something to do with how to cut to the liest advantage. A good crop of both corn and weeds cannot be grown on the same ground at the same time, any more than two railway trains can pass each otlter on the same track. on m. I dub, ci'i- ana the mi met hi and dr ode in "Is, it." mixed up with Payne on that saw "I i ing. DM FC FISTULA and alt I LLvJ Rectal diseases cured by Dr.

Win. HaU. No Knife. No Pain. No Money until patient Is cured.

Send for circula-giving all information and names of persons cured. Address or call at 126 North Main SU 'Wichita, Kansas. I called at the White Mr. Lincoln about some 11 matter before my committee of Congress, but the carriage was drawn up lef tc the door and thr doorkeeper said that the President and General Grant, with their wives, were going to the theater. So 1 did not One of the best feeding trouglis foi sheep is shown in the annexed cut Fig.

It contains many practical advantages, and is withal simple and easy of construction. It may he used both for feeding grain and chopped roots, and as a rack for hay. Troughs similar to this tarry. I albuminoids or nitrogenous matter, with 19 per cent, of carbhydrates. Those who have never used it will do well to give it a trial.

Once introduced on the farm the farmer will seldom do without it I don't know, but I think that if skimmed milk is fed to the hens instead of the pigs it will yield a greater profit. Our hens get nothing to drink but milk, and they lay right straight along. One advantage in butter over milk dairying is that the skimmed milk and buttermilk are left for use on the farm. Another advantage is that in selling off butter you carry off none of the farm's fertility, whereas in selling milk you do. Still another advantage is that you do not have to go to market so often.

Horses and wagons cost money. A neighbor of mine sold milk and kept two wagons as he put it, "he had one wagon on the road and one at the shop. Rural New Yorker. Fi'a north and went around taking a couple of calls on half past nine or -o. Ae -t Sumner's house, now anl a hurrying horseman and men shout 'stop that flic horse was lumbering mud, and I could easily seised his bridle.

Rut impression that it was a 3 Lafayette square, the way lasting till 1 walked down pa the Arlington, 1 coming up the hill horse! stop through the heavy have sprung out an I had a sudden drunken soldier W. Bischoff, the celebrated blind organist, uses an instrument to record piano melodies, which he composes from time to time, haying the melodies afterwards transcribed to paper from the machine by an amanuensis. At the office of the Century Dictionary, a phonograph is used to give examples of correct and incorrect pronunciation. Members of Congress who have large correspondence, and who have to pay for clerk hire out of their own pockets, especially appreciate the machines as time and money savers. They can dictate when they choose, as rapidly as they choose, ue up the odd moments and utilize for transcribing a very much less expensive class of help thanwould otherwise be the case, often enlisting members of their own family.

Among the most enthusiastic users of the machines in the lower house, are Representative Peters, of Kansas. Struble, of Iowa, and Atkinson, of Pennsylvania, in addition to Representative Breckinridge already referred to. "In the patent office several the principal examiners now dictate lie: opinions and letters to graphophones. In lie inteestate commerce commission, in the geological survey, in the signal office, in the adjutant general's office. War Department, in the Treasury Department, in the Agricultural Department, and in the machines are in daily use.

"Where persons keep no clei their own, they simply send the cylindeis bearing the dictation around to the office of the Columbia Phonograph Company, or to any other office where graphophones are used, the dic A box for papers and magazines is a very fine thing for a sitting room and may lie just what some tired mother has wished for to hold these left-overs. Take a soap box and put on a lid with small hinge3 get some pretty flowered sateen and tack around the box smoothly. Pad the lid with old carpet or soft cloth and then cover. Place a strong bow of ribbon at the front to raised theiid with. Borax water is excellent for sponging either tilk or wool goods that are not soiled enougli to need washing.

Cashmere or any wool goods may be washed with a little borax in the water and the color not injured. They should not bo rubbed on the board, but only between 1 trom the guard at MANHOOD HfrL A victim of youthful imprudence, eausinf Premature Decay. Nervous Debility, Lost Manhood, 4c, having tried in vain every known remedy, has discovered a simple meant of self-core, which he will send (sealed) FHEE to his fellow-sufferers. Address: Jos. E.

Lingo, P. 0. Box 902. Wichita, Kansas. Science on tha Farm.

One of the s'mpksi articles on fungus diseases of plants that has yet been pre Lshed. His work is done chiefly in the morning, and when once started he writes quickly and steadily, aften filling live or six pages of note paper, closely wrftl ten, without lifting his pen for meditation. The walls of his boose, like ose of Mr. Aldrich's, are all embellished with personal souvenirs of writers and artists. On on" side you II encounter a picture ninde Mr HoweQi by Alma Tadema, a warm personal friend, wdiile in another the eye rests on some of Dante Gabriel KoeaBttfa pic nr.

or a bas-relief of his second daughter, Mildred, the work of the novelist's brother-in-law, G. Mead, of Rome. And thus in whatever direction one looks in Mr Howells's parlors, there is something to remind you of the many friendships which the occupant has made. W.M. L.

HtOT. rncr TO WOMEN Who are suf-rnLL fering with Painful Chron-lo Pemale Weakness, Kidney or Bladder Trouble, I will mail you FREE a Prescription that cured me after years of suffering-having received a complete cure. 1 wish to give this Self-Cur to very sufferer of my own sex. Address: Mrs. W.

0. Kobher. P. 0. Box 902, the hands, and hung on the line to dry without wringing.

If treated in this way and pressed on the wrong side a3 soon as dry enough they will look like new. Glycerine and rose water for softening the hands can be prepared as follows One-half cupful of glycerine, one cupful of rose water, one-half teaspoonful spirits of camphor. First put camphor in the bottle, then glycerine, which shake well before addins the rose water. Ap Pleuro-pneumonia has had a foothold in England for fifty years, and only within the last year and a half nave anything like effective efforts been made to stamp it out. During this period has been expended on the slau ghter of diseased stock, and about $300,000 has been used in buying and killing stock that had been exposed to the disease.

Still pleuro-pneumonia is as rampant as erer, nor d.xs it appear that the stamping out process as practiced is at all likely to lead to the eradication of the disease at an early About Good ltutter. One would think that every dairyman would try to produce butter which the consumer would take off his hands at a profit. Such is not the ease. Western dairymen are waking up to progressive methods of butter making. Their market lor choice creamery butter Is broad-enieg year by year.

Not only does the western dairyman send his fine products to the Atlantic cities, but also to the Pacific slope. In the first ten days in October Los Angeles received five carloads of easi, butter. She has imported 227,000 pounds of butter in the last six months. California depends on Iowa and Wisconsin for her choice butter. Wichita.

Kansas. tations are written out and the manuscript promptly returned. "Professor C.V. Riley, the entomologist of the Agricultural Department, took his graphophone with him to the Paris exposition, jmd used it there daily for his correspondence and other dictation, thus savins the expense ind inconvenience of taking a stenographer have been made for many years, but an improvement is shown in the double trough below, Fig. 2.

The diagram exhibits a section across one of the ends, and shows the structure, which needs no further description. A simple board, ae a roof will preserve the fodder from the weather or rains, if necessary. The space between the upper and lower troughs should be just sufficient for the sheep to abstract the feed. Indrawn Poultry. If housekeepers everywhere would etart and maintain a crusade against the) sale of undrawn poultry in the markets or by farmers it would work a most wholesome hygienic reform.

It is a vicious practice, an abuse, in fact, that people have endured as they have many other abuses, because there is no remedy except in concerted action or legislation. kfinisVXuL. "White FqiQuaibIT linker headquarters jnt below Seward's, and I did not atttempt to stop him. "I took an Avenue car down towards the Capitol, and, on reaching Tenth street noticed that there was excitement and a crowd leathering. A man got on the car and said to me 'Lincoln has lieon shot at FonlV I jumped off and waited up Tenth.

Arrived at the theater, they sai.l he had b-en ciriied into the house opposite. I ami there lay Lincoln insensible. was greatly excited ami almost I said what 1 could to give her ho; e. Tt I lirst learned of the attack on Seward. I helped Stanton to organize and conduct the inquiry which began immediately in that chamber of death, and we were busy ill ght bearing witnesses.

Wilkes Rush's ame was men tinned early; it was obvious that he was the rsnu wanted. We we there till Lincoln breathed hi- last, at br ad daylight. Then I went down to the Chronic le lice and wrote a dispatch to the conn ry on the situation, intended to quiet up, rehensions concerning the succession. I also in, Mr. Chase, Hen Wade and one or two others, and we went to the Kirkwood House where the Chief Justice administered the oath of office to Andrew Johnson.

Ho imp-o-s -1 us all very favorably by his sobriety and earnestness, and there were many hopeful prognostications of his administration even while we were yet assembled in bis room." I attended one evening last week the first Of a series of card parties given by a man with a m. st dramatic history Dr. W. A. Hammond at the new residence he has built out Fourteenth street.

The assemblage gentlemen was a rather distinguished one, culling them from every branch of the public service. The house itself is a palace one of three or four of the finest dwellings on this continent. The building is a hundred feet square, vast enough for astatecapitol. Within the stately porch opens the first vestibule, and this opens upon an inner vestibule, which, in turn, opens upon a third and upon the side reception rooms. The floors are tessehtted; the walls hung with silks; the ceilings of deep and many colored panels.

In the center of the building is a grand court or pateo, fifty JfcMAHAN'9 DETECTIVE AGENCY. 255 Main tt Wichita. Kam. IITEKESCVS Wichita National Bank, 6tat National Bank, Citizens Bank. Sluss A Stanley, Aft ys, JndgeWall, Hollowell A Hume, Attn J.

II. Richards. Vice-Pres't and Gen. Att'y Mo. P.

R. R-. R. Hardiuf. Superintendent -Mo.

r. a. a. pared is Professor Humphrey contribution to Bulletin 6 cf the Hatch Station at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, He treats the matter in general, and considers in detail the black spot of rose leaves, black knot of the plum, and potato blight or rot. Professor Humphrey's work on the latter subject is attracting considerable attention.

Professor May nard is very conservatn about the new varieties of strawbjrrries, and wisely points out that the large berries demanded by the market can only be grown under the highest culture, but many growers have not yet learned that this is a necessity to profitable strawberry growing. "The position of many of the old varieties remains unchanged, and few, if any, of the new kinds have shown qualities which make them superior tc those already in general cultivation. The striped prairie squirrel comes in for condemnation on our Western prairies quite as much as the crow in the Eastern States. But C. P.

Gillette has been studying the food habits of this squirrel and Bade (Iowa Bulletin G) that they feel ian e'y noon injurious insects, If some means of pro cc ting corn seed against them were practicable, t' ey would be of in iu cut-worm 2 nn sin.iler grnla The proceedings at the tenth meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science deserves to rank high among the publications of scientific so ply after washing the hands and while still wet Rub in well, then wipe with a soft towel In some markets fowls can not be sold if drawn, while in others they must be drawn. In the Richmond (Va.) market all fowls exposed for sale must not only be drawn, cleaned, and perfectly fresh, but the heads must be removed and the shanks cut of at ti knees. The thighs are then nicely pa I into the skin near the opening and the wings locked (or crossed). This must be done under penalty of confiscation, and it is a practice that is worthy of imitation elsewhere, as the entrails are the first portions of the carcass to decompose. A stuffed beefsteak may be prepared for dinner from a rather poor flank or round in this way Pound well, season with salt and pepper, spread with dressing from bread crumbs, roll up and tie closely with twine (which always save ICHES If yon desire them no use fool They Are a Failure.

It is acknowled that the purpose for which agricultural colleges were estab lished in the several States, and to which the Government contributed by liberal grants of land and money, has not been realized. The colleges do not educate men for the farms, but for professions, and the tendency of their teachings has been to draw yonng men from the farms, instead of fitting them for work on them. Government Agricultural Report. Don't Stint the Salt. Plenty of salt is a great preventive of disease, says the Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower.

Witness the health of flocks grazing on the salt grasses of the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the lowland villa of Utah, and the "salt brush" of Arizona. Though they might be slightly injured at first by the excess of salt in this class of vegetation, ultimately they cease to be affected by it, and thenceforth they are measurably proof against most diseases which assail their kind. put ing away time on things that don pay, send 1 at once for magnificent outfit of ing away time on things tnat don pay, Phosphate -meal is the name given to the commercial phosphate manufactured our Great New Stanley Book; if book and terms not satisfactory will refund your money; no risk; no capital needed; both ladies and gentle men employed: don't lose time in writing: step with bini and employing one there. "A well known plumber in this city us sa machine solely for the purpose of receiving orders, requesting customers who have orders to give to state explicitly to the machine what they want done. Another subscriber has an instrument solely for the purpose of oral communication with his mother, living in New England, who is very old, partially blind, and can not cither herself use a pen or read writing.

"Newspaper corresoondents find the machine particularly valuable, as they can dictate their news or other matter in very nAch less time than it would take to write it, and are then free to attend to other branches of their business. The reporters of debates of the House of Representatives take shorthand notes on the floor and read them rapidly to graphophones. Each reporter of debates, under the plan in vogue before the machines were introduced, had to have two shorthand amanuenses: now a single operator upon the typewriter can readily do the transcribing of a reporter. Business men especially appreciate the fact that while they are dictating they do not have to monopolize the time of any one else. When dictating to a shorthand writer, the presence of two persons is required; and the time required to take the notes is practically lest With the graphophone, the principal may be dictating on one machine while hit in while the water? tr nrs w- rth dollars.

Address B. F. JOHNSON A 100 juam street, nicnmond, a. It is impossible to keep undrawn poultry even a few hours, without the beginning of putrefaction from the effects of thi gases from the undigested food in th "crop" and intestines. The longer it ii kept the more of the poison goes into th flesh, and in the majority of case3 tht poultry that reaches the kitchen front the market is actually unfit for food.

Housekeepers could well afford to pay larger price'to have the poultry dressed immediately upon being killed thej pay formuch weight that isthrown away, as it is, besides having left a mass oi poisoned flesh. It is urged that some people prefer the flavor of undressed poultry, but that fact only makes the matter the more alarming, since it indicates that we are cultivating a taste foi putrid meat from iron-slag, under certain processes. It has been extensively used in Germany, owing to its coinjiarative cheapness. It is now made by a singfe concern in the United States, who sell it for $2o per ton a high price, considering that it contains only five and a half per cent of available phosphoric acid, against fifteen percent, of insoluble phosphoric acid. While the output of this material may be very largo in future, it will not be business icy to pay anything like as much for the phosphoric acid in this form as in uie-Wack or acid phosphate, until the agricultural value of phosphoric acid in tins meal has been thoroughly demonstrated! GLOBE IKON WORKS, Wichita, Kansas.

Headquarters for all kinds of Machinery for the Southwest; manufacturers of Kimble Patent Engine; also, of Boilers, Tank and Sheet-Iron Work, Pulleys, Shafting and Hangers. W. H. Fospa, Sup from the grocers parcels), put in a kettle and boil an hour, then in a dripping pan, basting often till a nice brown or place at once in a pan, add water, and if it bakes too rapidly cover with a dripping pan. This makes a good cold dish and does not cost like an expensive roast Wheat bran gives the best results when mixed with cut feed.

It is one of the cheapest foods that can be purchased for stock, both for its feeding and manorial value. cieties It is the only society of the kind, and one must keep abreast of its work to be thoroughly informed on the pro 13 W. V. Wichita, Kanf. and Hi bron xe feet square, decorate heavy furnishings.

of agriculture' -ience. either On the.